Google isn't indexing some pages on my Gatsby site

[mrbjjackson]

Hello, I’m not sure if this is an issue with Gatsby, Netlify or Google so apologies if this is in the wrong place. Please advise if so.

I am trying to get Google Search Console to index two recent pages on my Gatsby site.

On the console, most of the pages have been indexed correctly. However I’m getting an error on the two most recent pages I’ve added saying “Page is not indexed: Redirect error”.

• I’ve checked the redirect status using https://www.redirect-checker.org and both pages are showing as “301 Redirects”, but then so are all the other pages on the site (aside from the home page) and these other pages are being indexed perfectly well.
• The pages have been public for > 1 month so Google should definitely have had time to index them. I have also submitted them manually and shown the same error.
• the two pages Google is struggling with can be found at https://www.stagnesmmi.co.uk/workspace and https://www.stagnesmmi.co.uk/yoga . Whereas an example of a page that is being indexed correctly is https://www.stagnesmmi.co.uk/groups-and-classes/

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks very much!
Ben

[fool]

Hey Ben,

Does sound more like a question for google, but just looking there I see a difference in those pages:

the not-working ones don’t have a trailing slask; the working one does.

What happens if you ask google to index the trailing-slash version of the page? Does that work any better?

The other thing to keep in mind is whether your site has prerendering enabled, since that will “load your page” differently for google, than you do in a browser! But, I can see you do not have this enabled on this site. If you did, you’d connect more like described in this support guide (but again, this does not seem to be your situation today!):

[Support Guide] Understanding and debugging prerendering

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[mrbjjackson]

Thanks for the reply.
I’ve tried asking Google to index the “trailing slash” version of the site. We’ll see what it comes up with in a few days.
Thanks very much,
Ben